#iron sultanate

[tfinnbarr]

Mamluk Faris

[medievalgremlincore]

Official Trench Crusade Map

Behold, The Lands of the Great Powers who hold back the Foetid Dark.

This highly requested map of the world of Trench Crusade was illustrated by the incomparable Jared Blando!

Link

[farsight-the-char]

Alchemy, bitch!

[bob-the-seagull-king]

Takwin Homunculus

"In their posts far from the Iron Wall, this division of the venerable House of Wisdom is vulnerable. Thus the Alchemists, their creations, and Kavass protectors of the outpost are become united in a love of violently separating limbs from torsos in explosive glory"

Design for my warband's, Blackwater Crescent, very own homunculus servants. A churning mass of humors and crude oils in their body drugs the mind - replacing existential dread with a pure love of explosive violence against the forces of Shaytan.

[alittlereclusive]

I played a game of trench crusade with a friend earlier tonight. He was on trench pilgrims and I was on iron sultanate. Turn two, he's trying to make an 8" charge with his anchorite into my brazen bull (they only get d3 on the charge because of machine armour, so it was a 50/50). It was a pretty big roll which would be a huge swing either way, either letting the bull run rampant for an additional turn, or the anchorite does anchorite stuff in melee. And, as he's about to make the roll, I shit you not, Holding Out for a Hero comes on in the store's speakers, and the madman makes the charge and proceeds to wreck my bull.

It wasn't hugely unlikely, but it was just so hype.

God I love this game.

[matrim-cauthons-hat]

finished up an alchemist in standard armour, armed with halberd gun - the spike on the other side fell off :( - and azeb armed with jezzail, axe, and medi-kit. and they both have alchemical ammo, obvs. why wouldnt they take alchemical ammo????? so now im 3 outta 9 units done for my iron sultanate warband. honestly im not convinced i shouldn't have made Balkirsh's pants the same colour as her top, but what's done is done. maybe i'll make another alchemist one day.

oh hey here's a pic of all three of my warband, complete with a name for Rostem now!

[cuttlefishey]

Sinbad and his crew are ready to serve in the name of Allah

[a-wa-c]

I hath returned to the blessed light of The Painting Stick.

Iron Sultanate baybee, gotta get a anti-hell army on the field too.

[shallcohol-content]

Arm to Arm; Heart to Heart

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64253962

I wrote a short story about a trench crusade campaign @buffmrtumnus and I play together. Go check it out you heathens.

[imatsoup21]

This is my first game of TC and I'm so nervous

How do I win guys?

[zsielous]

Brazen Bull from Trench Crusade. c:

[farsight-the-char]

++ THE IRON WALL ++

- Art by Artem Demura

.. They said: “O Dhu al-Qarnayn! Lo! Gog and Magog are spoiling the land. So may we pay thee tribute on condition that thou set a barrier between us and them?” He said: “That wherein my Lord hath established me is better than your tribute. Do but help me with the strength of men, I will set between you and them a bank. “Give me pieces of iron” - till, when he had levelled up the gap between the cliffs, he said: “Blow!” - till, when he had made it a fire, he said: “Bring me molten copper to pour thereon.” “And Gog and Magog were not able to surmount, nor could they pierce it.” He said: “This is a mercy from my Lord; but when the promise of my Lord cometh to pass, He will lay it low, for the promise of my Lord is true.” - Surah Al-Kahf

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More lore under the cut

Anchored by the Taurus Mountains to the North and Zagros Mountains in the East, the two horns of the crescent moon, the Invincible Iron Wall of Dhu al-Qarnayn is both the symbol of the Sultanate and the very reason for its existence. Beyond it lies the last and the greatest realm of Those Who Believe. Easily eclipsing all other known Wonders of the World, none who have seen the Iron Wall can ever forget it. Despite centuries of artillery bombardment by Heretic cannons, its surface is untarnished, glittering like a newly-cast steel plating in the morning sun, and at night the manyfold gemstones embedded into its very structure light up in a wondrous show of colour and artistry. Neither the Wall itself nor its gates have ever been brought down, and while some enemies have made it across the Wall to spread death and terror deep into the Sultanate proper, they have always been thrown back.

At regular intervals stand towers and bulwarks erected by the sultans of both past and present, specifically constructed to support the long-range artillery of the Imperial School of Military Engineering. The great spires act as both lookouts as well as minarets for calling the believers to salah five times a day. These constructions, mighty as they may be, are not nearly as durable as the Invincible Iron Wall. They are often under repairs or being rebuilt due to the horrendous damage Heretic artillery and long-range bombers inflict upon them. There are four Great Gates (as well as many lesser ones) roughly corresponding to the four cardinal directions. Each holds a great garrison commanded by a sanjaq-bey (‘Lord of the Standard’) responsible for the security and protection of the trade routes beyond. Despite their formidable constructions, the Sultan’s Pashas know that if one of the Four Gates was ever taken, the Sultanate would be in mortal peril. Thus it is not just Janissaries and a host of Azebs and Sappers that guard the Great Gates, but instead each entrance is also guarded by two takwin creatures of truly colossal proportions: winged beasts with eyes keener than those of any hawk and claws that can tear a Heretic tank in half with a single swipe. Their form was chosen in honour of the legendary buraq that once carried the Prophet. They are not only there to protect the Gates with physical force but also with their wit.

Created with keen intellect, the buraq takwin tests the travellers to the Sultanate with subtle but deeply sagacious perspicacious questions and riddles, exposing Heretic infiltrators and weeding out those who would bring harm to the Believers. Due to their intelligence, the takwin guardians are well-aware of the artificial nature of their being, suffering from the knowledge of their unnatural existence. It is said that they are created as pairs not only for their might but also that they could give solace to each other with deep philosophical discussion and sophisticated poetry, alleviating the pain of their existential horror - for they were created by a man and not by God, and thus can hold no hope of salvation. When there are no passersby travelling through the Gate, their low, rumbling voices echo across the wall as they debate the meaning of the ninety-nine names of Allah, the nature of love or past battles they have engaged in the many years of their existence. Creation and maintenance of even one of these mighty beasts costs the Sultan the yearly income of an entire nāḥiyah, and occupies the finest cadre of the Alchemists of the House of Wisdom for a better part of seven years. It is a price the Sultan is glad to pay for the protection of his people. The bountiful blessings of the Iron Wall are not limited to mere physical protection from the forces of Shaytan: the scholars of the House of Wisdom have laboured for decades to create machines to help maintain and regulate the precipitation within the lands of the Believers, as well as making Sultanate air space exceedingly hard for Heretic aerial forces to harry, due to the high winds that often whip above the spires of the Iron Wall. Here, wondrous devices trap the passing gales and storms, using them to guard their air space against Hell-bombers and long range reconnaissance planes.

[alittlereclusive]

I haven't done very much painting recently, but here's some newly finished Janissaries. I'm pretty happy with how they ended up, a little less happy with my photography skills, but oh well.

I have some mostly finished lions of jabrir which look like dogshit, so I probably won't be posting lmao.

[matrim-cauthons-hat]

i really gotta doing this whole "i'll do 45-60mins of painting real quick and then get dinner" thing cos it always turns in two and a half hours work and i knock out a whole damn mini. anyway, here's the first of my quartet of jannisaries. havent named him yet, but he's armed with a machinegun and shovel. thats it. i mean the shovel counts as a trench club anyway, so he'll be fiiiiiiine in melee

[cuttlefishey]

Sinbad and his crew are ready to serve in the name of Allah

[a-wa-c]

ASSORTED SACKS OF TRENCH CRUSADE BAYBEE